may và might trong câu thật
25.861 câu có mẫu này. Điều có thể xảy ra, hoặc xin phép trang trọng. Công thức: may hoặc might + động từ.
Nhãn do quy tắc chữ gán tự động và ưu tiên độ chính xác hơn độ phủ, nên nhiều câu đúng mẫu vẫn chưa được gán nhãn.
Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (25.861 câu)
I spent the day with her out-of-doors; I arranged with her, to her great satisfaction, that it should be she, she only, who might show me the place.
Từ trong câu: satisfaction, arrange, spend, day, out, door, great, show
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The pond, oblong in shape, had a width so scant compared to its length that, with its ends out of view, it might have been taken for a scant river.
Từ trong câu: river, compare, width, length, shape, pond, end, out
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She once more took my hand in both her own, holding it as tight as if to fortify me against the increase of alarm I might draw from this disclosure.
Từ trong câu: tight, increase, once, take, hand, hold, alarm, draw
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
You will excuse these precautions, but I am a man of somewhat retiring, and I might even say refined, tastes, and there is nothing more unæsthetic than a policeman.
Từ trong câu: policeman, excuse, man, somewhat, retire, even, taste, nothing
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was disappointed, for I had notified Miss Tita that I would come back for a report, and I thought she might have left a light there as a sign.
Từ trong câu: disappoint, disappointed, report, notify, miss, come, back, think
Henry James, The Aspern Papers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It took them a little while to discover that instead of being an all-sufficient panacea, mere legislation may become at times as flat and useless as a cold pancake.
Từ trong câu: pancake, take, little, discover, instead, sufficient, mere, legislation
Herbert Joseph Moorhouse, Deep Furrows - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
The living trees, lashed together by the creepers and every living bush of the undergrowth, might have been changed into stone, even to the slenderest twig, to the lightest leaf.
Từ trong câu: leaf, live, tree, together, every, bush, change, stone
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We should be irrevocably cut off from our past, and be forced to splice the ragged ends of our lives upon whatever new conditions chance might leave dangling for us.
Từ trong câu: splice, irrevocably, cut, off, past, force, end, life
Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor] Eliot, Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I may say truly that I understood--and my hesitation in letting that man swim away from my ship’s side had been a mere sham sentiment, a sort of cowardice.
Từ trong câu: truly, hesitation, sentiment, understand, let, man, swim, away
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But although it was so wild, yet wherever in an ordinary heath you might have expected furze bushes, or holly, or broom, there grew roses--wild and rare--all kinds.
Từ trong câu: ordinary, wherever, rare, although, wild, expect, broom, grow
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But there was even less danger than the wicked fairy thought; for, however much the princess might desire to be set free, she was dreadfully afraid of the wrong prince.
Từ trong câu: free, even, less, danger, wicked, fairy, think, however
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Hence, there is no legal protection in fact, whatever there may be in form, for the slave population; and any amount of cruelty may be inflicted on them with impunity.
Từ trong câu: hence, legal, protection, fact, whatever, form, slave, population
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
May he continue to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of God,” that he may be increasingly serviceable in the cause of bleeding humanity, whether at home or abroad!
Từ trong câu: whether, bleed, abroad, grace, grow, increasingly, continue, knowledge
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
These words used to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console me with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free.
Từ trong câu: occur, console, word, use, trouble, express, sympathy, hope
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She idealized her, of course, thinking of her as one might think of a picture or statue, a symbolic figure, standing for liberty and justice and the redress of wrong.
Từ trong câu: symbolic, statue, course, think, picture, figure, stand, liberty
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
If Alexandra had had much imagination she might have guessed what was going on in Marie’s mind, and she would have seen long before what was going on in Emil’s.
Từ trong câu: imagination, much, guess, go, mind, see, long
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Yet sometimes, in the pauses of his work, the young man frowned and looked at the ground with an intentness which suggested that even twenty-one might have its problems.
Từ trong câu: problem, sometimes, pause, work, young, man, look, ground
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Not likely that one of his decisive type, whose life had so long been bound up with swords and horses, would grasp what music might mean to a little girl.
Từ trong câu: decisive, likely, type, life, long, bound, up, sword
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her sceptical instinct told her that what Fiorsen might honestly mean to do was very different from what he would do under stress of opportunity carefully put within his reach.
Từ trong câu: honestly, stress, instinct, tell, mean, different, opportunity, carefully
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When, in a heavy storm, the fire department may be imperfectly manned, the ship has taken one of the first chances for rendering the engines inefficient, and being finally lost.
Từ trong câu: inefficient, heavy, storm, fire, department, man, ship, take
Thomas Rainey, Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They roped us together with a clothes-line, arm to arm, and marched us through the principal streets by a roundabout route to the station so that all might see.
Từ trong câu: roundabout, rope, together, clothes, line, arm, march, principal
George Pearson, The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Its dogmas, if one may so speak, were a hotchpotch of fine phrases about beauty, truth, right, and the like, culled from writers of all creeds and of no creed.
Từ trong câu: cull, speak, fine, phrase, beauty, truth, right, like
Various, The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
And earnest men, content to bear as best they may their own burden of doubt and disappointment, do not dissemble to themselves that the immediate outlook is dark and discouraging.
Từ trong câu: dissemble, earnest, man, content, bear, best, burden, doubt
Various, The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
If they had lived in the days of the automobile they might have sung a song of speed which would have been the most melodious chord in the whole gamut.
Từ trong câu: melodious, live, day, automobile, sing, song, speed, whole
M. F. Mansfield, The Automobilist Abroad - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Carpenter? why that’s—but no;—a very tidy, and, I may say, an extremely gentlemanlike sort of business thou art in here, carpenter;—or would’st thou rather work in clay?
Từ trong câu: tidy, extremely, carpenter, sort, business, art, rather, work
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Serious fault might be found with the anatomical details of this whale, but let that pass; since, for the life of me, I could not draw so good a one.
Từ trong câu: detail, fault, serious, find, whale, let, pass, since
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was all very grand, and three or four times as large as the old house at Birtwick, but not half so pleasant, if a horse may have an opinion.
Từ trong câu: grand, four, time, large, old, house, half, pleasant
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Done,” said the salesman; “and you may depend upon it there's a monstrous deal of quality in that horse, and if you want him for cab work he's a bargain.”
Từ trong câu: depend, quality, salesman, deal, horse, want, cab, work
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“It was one autumn morning, and as usual, an hour before daybreak our cavalry had turned out, ready caparisoned for the day's work, whether it might be fighting or waiting.
Từ trong câu: fighting, autumn, morning, usual, hour, turn, out, ready
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Perhaps it was to appeal to the flood of newly arrived American craftsmen who might find in the rococo something reminiscent of the older tools they had known in Europe.
Từ trong câu: reminiscent, perhaps, appeal, flood, newly, arrive, find, something
Peter C. Welsh, Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US